Typography of “Alien” (2014)

Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014) by nostromo on Saturday June 25, 2016 @06:42PM (#11978348)

Fun fact about the score to Aliens. There's an iconic song towards the end called Bishop's Countdown.

It has been recycled over and over again, particularly in trailers. It's like the Wilhelm Scream... once you start looking you'll start noticing it (and its homages) constantly.

https://youtu.be/dZ0dH5qv1mA?t=1m23s

https://youtu.be/-bBay_1dKK8?t=59s

https://youtu.be/jdl6eAIx2K4?t=1m35s

https://youtu.be/67oe0_s9EIw?t=45s

https://youtu.be/1608jthc2VM?t=1m20s

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Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014) by msm23 on Saturday June 25, 2016 @07:43PM (#11978632)

If you enjoy this kind of music, you'll like Shostakovitch. His 11th Symphony has this same style of music, and I've always felt like I was watching Aliens while listening to it. The two minutes in the following clip have the same build-up, rhythm, and style as the Bishop's Countdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVL3vtZ-z6g&feature=youtu.be...

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Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014) by visarga on Sunday June 26, 2016 @01:40AM (#11979554)

Yeah, Shostakovich was brilliant.

The ending of this piece reminds me of the ending of Symphony no 4 - with a quiet delicate bell sound, after starting with a grotesque, whacky march.

(A) start: https://youtu.be/I7U2WzC47sQ?t=246

(B) ending: https://youtu.be/I7U2WzC47sQ?t=3488

How did he go from A to B?

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Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014) by lucidguppy on Saturday June 25, 2016 @07:03PM (#11978438)

Reminds me of mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmk5frp6-3Q

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Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014) by AceJohnny2 on Saturday June 25, 2016 @08:33PM (#11978815)

I love Mars (worth noting Holst wrote it between 1914 and 1916), it's jaw-dropping to discover all the references that John WiIliams was inspired from for Star Wars' music... https://youtu.be/5pM2SozsyPE

Also, obligatory Venture Bros reference ;) https://youtu.be/K0iTfasIpLc?t=1m34s

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Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014) by drivers99 on Sunday June 26, 2016 @11:20AM (#11981138)

The last 35 second of Mars (when I first listened to it a couple years ago) made think that was what the used in a scene at the beginning of the Hitchhiker's Guide movie, final 40 seconds of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1WomfhjyVM

Listening to them side by side they are not really the same at all. I think the Hitchhiker's version is just a comically extended version of it.

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Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014) by kuschku on Saturday June 25, 2016 @08:20PM (#11978770)

That sounds like part of the OST of one Star Trek movie (Star Trek 8, in fact), and a dozen more movies I saw.

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Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014) by agumonkey on Sunday June 26, 2016 @07:26AM (#11980337)

So the Amen Break of epic music

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